Pantry & Fridge: FridgeBuddy
Track food stock & expiration
Free · In-App Purchases
New: Household sharing. One invite gives your family access to every storage and every shopping list at once.
Stop wasting food – take control of your pantry, fridge, and freezer with FridgeBuddy!
Get smart expiration alerts, organize your food inventory, and save money.
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HOW IT WORKS
• Scan the barcode of any item to instantly add it to your inventory
• Track expiration dates across your fridge, freezer, and pantry
• Get notified before food expires – you choose when!
• Eat it in time, reduce waste, and save money
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TOP FEATURES
Inventory management
• Scan barcodes for quick product input
• Track food across multiple storage locations
• Auto-organized lists: expiring soon, expired, and more
• Search and filter your entire food inventory
Smart alerts
• Customizable notifications before food expires
• Never forget what's in the back of your freezer
Household sharing
• Share your inventory with family or roommates
• Everyone stays in sync with iCloud
Shopping list
• Go from inventory to shopping list in seconds
• Share lists with your household
Insights & statistics
• Waste tracker: see what you eat vs. what you throw away
• Track your consumption habits over time
More
• Home screen widgets for quick access
• Nutri-Score and Green-Score for each product
• Export to CSV for backup or personal use
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Join thousands of families reducing food waste every day.
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more More control over your inventory and shopping lists.
• Choose how far ahead the Upcoming smart list looks: 7, 14, or 30 days—or all products with a future expiration date.
• Choose whether expiration tracking is enabled by default for new products.
• Sort shopping list items with the newest first.
2.31.0 20 Aug
This update makes household sharing more reliable. Invite links now work more consistently, joining a household is smoother, and the app can recover a shared household that stopped syncing. We also fixed reordering storage locations by drag and drop. Thanks for your feedback!
2.30.2 4 Aug
This update fixes a crash that could happen when tapping a product's image before saving it. Thanks to everyone who reported it!
2.30.1 26 Jul
What's new in this version:
• Shopping list sorting: order items your way with new sort options.
• Smoother scanning: tap Skip to jump straight to manual entry with the barcode already filled in, and slow lookups no longer leave you waiting.
• Reliability: we now let you know if a save doesn't go through, plus fixes for rare crashes when using or editing items.
2.30.0 13 Jul
This update makes Fridge Buddy easier to search, scan, and browse.
What's new
- Scan a barcode directly from Search to find products faster.
- Tap a product photo to zoom in and view it full screen.
- Switch Smart Lists to a compact layout when you want to see more items at once.
Also fixed
- Household invite links now share more reliably.
- Clearing a product’s expiration date or price now saves correctly.
- Fixed crashes that could happen when marking products as consumed.
- Improved search memory usage and overall stability.
2.29.0 24 Jun
Family sharing just got simpler. One invite now gives everyone access to your whole Household, every storage and every shopping list, no more sharing lists one by one.
Already sharing? Just resend a single household invite right after updating.
2.28.1 9 Jun
Family sharing just got simpler. One invite now gives everyone access to your whole Household, every storage and every shopping list, no more sharing lists one by one.
Already sharing? Just resend a single household invite right after updating.
2.28.0 27 May
■ New:
- Add products, check what's expiring, and mark items as consumed using Siri
- Find your products straight from Spotlight search
- Build your own Shortcuts to automate fridge actions
■ Improvements & Fixes
- Faster barcode scans on slow connections
- Cleaned up leftover products that could appear in widgets and smart lists
2.27.0 4 May
■ New:
- New smart lists available
- Customise which smart lists are displayed
- Scan now support GS1 Data Matrix barcodes and automatically read the expiration date when available
- Products not found online are now saved locally so you only need to enter their details once
- Reorder your storage locations to match your preference
- Added support for Dutch localisation
■ Improvements & Fixes
- Improved widgets performances
- Fix home screen quick action add product
- Improved Czech localisation
- Improved image loading and caching
- Better performance when tracking a large number of products
- Widgets are now more reliable
- Default list creation is no longer triggered when reinstalling the app
- Changing the storage associated with a product now works more reliably
2.26.2 9 Apr
■ New:
- New smart lists available
- Customise which smart lists are displayed
- Scan now support GS1 Data Matrix barcodes and automatically read the expiration date when available
- Products not found online are now saved locally so you only need to enter their details once
- Reorder your storage locations to match your preference
- Added support for Dutch localisation
■ Improvements & Fixes
- Fix home screen quick action add product
- Improved Czech localisation
- Improved image loading and caching
- Better performance when tracking a large number of products
- Widgets are now more reliable
- Default list creation is no longer triggered when reinstalling the app
- Changing the storage associated with a product now works more reliably
2.26.1 27 Mar
■ New:
- New smart lists available
- Customise which smart lists are displayed
- Scan now support GS1 Data Matrix barcodes and automatically read the expiration date when available
- Products not found online are now saved locally so you only need to enter their details once
- Reorder your storage locations to match your preference
- Added support for Dutch localisation
■ Improvements & Fixes
- Fix home screen quick action add product
- Improved Czech localisation
- Improved image loading and caching
- Better performance when tracking a large number of products
- Widgets are now more reliable
- Default list creation is no longer triggered when reinstalling the app
- Changing the storage associated with a product now works more reliably
2.26.0 15 Mar
■ New:
- Scan now support GS1 Data Matrix barcodes and automatically read the expiration date when available
- Products not found online are now saved locally so you only need to enter their details once
- Reorder your storage locations to match your preference
- Added support for Dutch localisation
■ Improvements & Fixes
- Improved Czech localisation
- Improved image loading and caching
- Better performance when tracking a large number of products
- Widgets are now more reliable
- Default list creation is no longer triggered when reinstalling the app
- Changing the storage associated with a product now works more reliably
2.25.0 28 Feb
This update is focused on improving app performance and fixing a lot of small bugs.
■ New:
- Added support for Czech localisation (thanks Petr!)
- Widgets now redirect to the displayed storage
■ Improvements & Fixes
- Improved image loading and caching
- Better performance when tracking a large number of products
- Widgets are now more reliable
- Default list creation is no longer triggered when reinstalling the app
- Changing the storage associated with a product now works more reliably
2.24.0 20 Feb
■ New:
- New plus button options: long press to choose Scan barcode or Add manually, and set your default action (app settings)
■ Improvements & Fixes
- Better expiration date recognition, faster and more reliable
- CSV export now works correctly
- Fixed price input when using a comma instead of a dot
- Fixed several iPad issues, including camera preview and better trackpad support in landscape
- Fixed an issue where the camera permissions were not always requested
2.23.3 9 Feb
■ New:
- New plus button options: long press to choose Scan barcode or Add manually, and set your default action (app settings)
■ Improvements & Fixes
- Better expiration date recognition, faster and more reliable
- CSV export now works correctly
- Fixed price input when using a comma instead of a dot
- Fixed several iPad issues, including camera preview and better trackpad support in landscape
- Fixed an issue where the camera permissions were not always requested
2.23.2 5 Feb
■ New:
- New plus button options: long press to choose Scan barcode or Add manually, and set your default action (app settings)
■ Improvements & Fixes
- Better expiration date recognition, faster and more reliable
- CSV export now works correctly
- Fixed price input when using a comma instead of a dot
- Fixed several iPad issues, including camera preview and better trackpad support in landscape
2.23.1 29 Jan
■ New:
- New plus button options: long press to choose Scan barcode or Add manually, and set your default action (app settings)
■ Improvements & Fixes
- Better expiration date recognition, faster and more reliable
- CSV export now works correctly
- Fixed price input when using a comma instead of a dot
- Fixed several iPad issues, including camera preview and better trackpad support in landscape
2.23.0 26 Jan
■ Improvements & Fixes
- Items are now always displayed in the same order
- Translate missing texts
- Better handle refused camera permission
- Fix widget not loading shared inventory lists
- Greatly improved how the sharing and synchronisation work
- More customisation from the settings
- Add missing translations
2.22.2 08/12/2025
■ Improvements & Fixes
- Items are now always displayed in the same order
- Translate missing texts
- Better handle refused camera permission
- Fix widget not loading shared inventory lists
- Greatly improved how the sharing and synchronisation work
- More customisation from the settings
- Add missing translations
2.22.1 24/11/2025
■ Improvements & Fixes
- Items are now always displayed in the same order
- Translate missing texts
- Better handle refused camera permission
- Fix widget not loading shared inventory lists
- Greatly improved how the sharing and synchronisation work
- More customisation from the settings
- Add missing translations
2.22.0 12/11/2025
■ Improvements & Fixes
- Items are now always displayed in the same order
- Translate missing texts
- Better handle refused camera permission
- Fix widget not loading shared inventory lists
- Greatly improved how the sharing and synchronisation work
- More customisation from the settings
- Add missing translations
2.21.1 27/10/2025
■ Improvements & Fixes
- Items are now always displayed in the same order
- Translate missing texts
- Better handle refused camera permission
- Fix widget not loading shared inventory lists
- Greatly improved how the sharing and synchronisation work
- More customisation from the settings
- Add missing translations
2.21.0 15/10/2025
■ New:
- Support for iOS 26 Liquid Glass
- Meal suggestions: Get meal ideas from what you’ve logged.
- Smart insights: Analyzes the last your logs to spot waste patterns and suggest small, money-saving actions
■ Improvements & Fixes
- Fix widget not loading shared inventory lists
- Greatly improved how the sharing and synchronisation work
- More customisation from the settings
- Add missing translations
2.20.1 06/10/2025
■ New:
- Support for iOS 26 Liquid Glass
- Meal suggestions: Get meal ideas from what you’ve logged.
- Smart insights: Analyzes the last your logs to spot waste patterns and suggest small, money-saving actions
■ Improvements & Fixes
- Greatly improved how the sharing and synchronisation work
- More customisation from the settings
- Add missing translations
2.20.0 25/09/2025
■ New:
- Support for iOS 26 Liquid Glass
- Meal suggestions: Get meal ideas from what you’ve logged.
- Smart insights: Analyzes the last your logs to spot waste patterns and suggest small, money-saving actions
■ Improvements & Fixes
- More customisation from the settings
- Add missing translations
2.19.0 14/09/2025
More control over your inventory and shopping lists.
• Choose how far ahead the Upcoming smart list looks: 7, 14, or 30 days—or all products with a future expiration date.
• Choose whether expiration tracking is enabled by default for new products.
• Sort shopping list items with the newest first.
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